Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-lvwk9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-18T06:00:19.353Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Too Good to be Used

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Thomas Gilby O.P.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

When at length Job's comforters had done their reasonable best to justify God's ways with man according to their own theological preconceptions, the Lord answered him out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Let a scholastic psychologist bear in mind that closure to the debate when he sets out to outline how we should use our faculties in our life with God.

Using is what we do with utilities, and these as such are expendable objects which though not valuable in themselves do serve a higher purpose. Hence it is not the same as cherishing, which is what we do with things dear in themselves or as enjoying, which is what we do with things that give us pleasure.

Type
Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 12 , Issue 135 , September 1957 , pp. 118 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © 1957 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Job xxxviii, i, 2, 7.

2 A continuation of ‘Having our Faculties', The Lite Of The Spirit, xi, pp. 499-510, May, 1957.

3 ia. v, 6, c. ad 3.

4 Ibid, ad 2.

5 See 2a.-2ae. xxiii, 5; cvi, cxiv, I, ad I. VIII Ethics, lect. 3, I3; de duobus praecptis Caritatis, 5.

6 Ia. xcviii, 2, ad 3; 1a-2ae. xxxi, 6; III contra gentes, 26.

7 VII Ethics, lect. 14.

8 Ia-2ae. xxxi, 2; xxxiv, I, 2,4.

9 2a-2ae.xxxv,4

10 Ia-2ae. ii,6.

11 2a-2ae. xxiii, 7; xlv, I,ad I.

12 2a-2ae. xxxiv, 2 ad I.

13 gen. i, 3I

14 Confessions, x, 27

15 ia. xix, 9; ia-2ae. Ixxii, 1, 5; lxxv, 1; lxxxvii, 4; 3a. lxxxvi, 4, 5.

16 ia. vi, 4; 2a-2ae. xxiii, 7; xlv, 1, ad 1. I Sentences, VIII, i, 2, ad 2.

17 III Contra Gentes, 69

18 2a-2ae. ix, 4.

19 Ia. v, 6, ad 2.

20 Ia-2ae.lxiv,4: 2a-2ae. xxiv, 7.

21 LXXXIII Quaest. 30; quoted Ia-2ae. xvi, 3 sed contra.

22 St Augustine, Sermones CCCXCVI, lii, 6.

23 2a-2ae. xvii, 2; 6, ad 3.

24 Job, xl, 2.

25 2a-2ae. xxi, 1; xcvii, 2.

26 2a-2ae. xxi, 2; xcvii, 4.

27 ia-2ae. lxxii, 1.

28 Phil, il, I2-I3.

29 2a-2ae. clxii, 2, 4, 6.

30 Jec. x, 6-7

31 2a-2ae. xliv, 4, ad 2.

32 Job, xl, 6-I4.

33 John, xv, I5.

34 2a-2ae. xxiii, I.

35 2a-2ae. xliv, i, ad 3.